"Edit: Another common thing about these discussions is otherwise intelligent people ignoring the fact that it is possible for a program written in one language to call a library written in another."
And this is a huge differentiator among languages.
Scala and Clojure have immediate access to the vast expanse of Java libraries. Python has a very good mechanism for wrapping and calling C/C++ libraries.
As far as I know, Arc does not yet particularly shine in this area, although I believe some arc hackers are working on it.
And this is a huge differentiator among languages.
Scala and Clojure have immediate access to the vast expanse of Java libraries. Python has a very good mechanism for wrapping and calling C/C++ libraries.
As far as I know, Arc does not yet particularly shine in this area, although I believe some arc hackers are working on it.